{"id":3909,"date":"2014-10-18T08:44:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T08:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2014-10-18T08:44:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T08:44:13","slug":"fish-eye-lens-at-east-ruston-old-vicarage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3909","title":{"rendered":"Fish-eye lens at East Ruston Old Vicarage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our visit last week to the gardens at East Ruston Old Vicarage, as well as the standard zoom lens,\u00a0 I took along a fish-eye lens in case I had a suitable subject. Sitting in the pergola (or is it an arbour?) in the &#8216;Red and Purple Borders&#8217; I took this simple image of the view from the seat:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/E14_6970p1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3912 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/E14_6970p1-600x386.jpg\" alt=\"standard view\" width=\"600\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/E14_6970p1-600x386.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/E14_6970p1-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/E14_6970p1.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Although it has been cropped slightly across the top, this is pretty much the view with a 24mm (equivalent) lens &#8211; a decent wide-angle. So I tried my fish-eye lens:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/E14_6973p1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3910 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/E14_6973p1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"fish-eye view\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/E14_6973p1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/E14_6973p1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/E14_6973p1.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>A lot more is visible with this lens, even though it distorts a lot to the sides. I quite like the framing effect of the posts to the side. However, being one to experiment, I wanted to straighten things up a bit by taking 2 images and stitching them in a panorama.<\/p>\n<p>This worked to a certain extent in giving a wider angle of view, but the top of the hedge was still curved. So with a bit of Photoshop magic (free transform and warp tools), I managed to straighten things out a little:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/E14_6976x2p1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3911 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/E14_6976x2p1-600x398.jpg\" alt=\"undistorted view\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/E14_6976x2p1-600x398.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/E14_6976x2p1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/E14_6976x2p1.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Even though this is an extremely wide view (the software reports it as being over 200 degrees!), it does look quite natural. I am pleased with the result.<\/p>\n<p>The full set of images are within the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/gallery-erov\/index.php\">EROV gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our visit last week to the gardens at East Ruston Old Vicarage, as well as the standard zoom lens,\u00a0 I took along a fish-eye lens in case I had a suitable subject. Sitting in the pergola (or is it an arbour?) in the &#8216;Red and Purple Borders&#8217; I took this simple image of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3909\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fish-eye lens at East Ruston Old Vicarage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,40,71,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-norfolk","category-panoramas","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3913,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/3913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}